[Insight-developers] enabling remote not quite right

[Bill Lorensen]

I had the same issue with recent changes to Remote modules. I suggest that
the fetch name and module name be the same. Also, I think Remote module
names should not have the ITK prefix.



On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
<blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>wrote:

> Matt,
>
> I am trying out some modules as remote instead of External. It appears
> that turning them on is not as straight forward as I expected.
> Specifically, when I add a remote cmake file with the following:
>
> itk_fetch_module(ExternalTemplate
>   "A template for a module."
>   GIT_REPOSITORY http://github.com/blowekamp/itkExternalTemplate.git
>   GIT_TAG master
>   )
>
>
>
> I have to turn on Module_ExternalTemplate which downloads the module
> nicely. But the I get the new CMake variable Module_ITKExternalTemplate,
> which needs to be turned on, now this ITK prefix comes from the named
> passed to itk_module. Looked at the checked in remotes, it appears that
> many of them  are not consisting the the name of the remote and the name of
> the module with regards to the ITK prefix.
>
> What do you think should be done to make this consistent?
> Should external remote modules have the ITK prefix or just internal ITK
> modules?
>
> Perhaps when a module is downloaded or updated we should verify that the
> name reported in itk_fetch_module matches that in itk_module, and produce
> an error if not?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
>
>
>
>
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